Guide Pratique du Fabricant de Sucre de N Basset - 1861

Paris: E Lacroix, Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole, 1861. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes pp 848 and pp 552. A theoretical and technical study of the manufacture of sugar, well illustrated within the text, in a modern binding of blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Internally crisp and clean apart from marginalia in pencil to chapters 2 and 3 of volume 1 which has nicks to half title and title page. Ownership inscription of Alfred C Chapman, London, possibly the British chemist who was President of the Royal Microscopical Society from 1924-26. Stamps of the University of Leeds Library. Very smart volumes. Near Fine 1861